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The most and the best uranium deposits this side of the "US", ask hARRY rEID and his lawyer son.
Now this is where the sell off goes to Russia under bARRY"O" and the cLINTONS of 25 % of the US reserves.

Seven years ago, I started working for a company that was 40 miles from my home. Nearly all highway miles, I've tolerated bad drivers and never ending road construction. With no traffic and obeying the speed limit, it's around 50 minutes one way, door to door. On a bad day it's more than 90 minutes to reach the office.

Except for the crazy drivers, I actually enjoy driving. Unless I were a professional driver getting paid to be on the road, it shouldn't be part of my career. I try to optimize my travels and visit projects before I get to the office, but that's not always possible. Sometimes, I have meetings at office first, then I travel out on appointments.

When I started this job, I owned an old Toyota Celica and after 220,000 miles I bought a new Hyundai Veloster in 2014 that's past 125,000 miles and the 4th set of tires.

My first choice was to purchase a house near the office, but that was totally out of my price range. Then I considered renting an apartment, but I didn't want to walk away with nothing to show for my efforts. That got me to condo shopping as that is the least expense to make things work. My wife had an apartment in China and was fine with that lifestyle. While there are lots of freedoms with a house (and no Homeowners Association) that would be traded for someone else maintaining the place but I would have to accept a list of 'cannot do' this or that, typical with condo living.

Shopping on and off for two years got accelerated in the last 6 months. Although house prices are rising, I found that the units I viewed usually were sold and quickly taken off the market. The last agent I dealt with has more sales than all the others combined and I decided to go with her. She was very helpful in making a purchase.

What I got was someone who already printed reports for the units we planned to visit and actually knew something about each one and not reading details from their cellphone like the other agents I met. Mentioned in previous blogs, the last one I saw was matched more of the conditions for a purchase. For example:
Price range, less work needed to be able to move in, no one had died in the unit, bedroom was on the east side and away from the heat of the afternoon sun, easy access from the entrance gate, laundry in the unit and not community coin laundry.

I made an offer, negotiated a bit, placed a deposit. Approved by the mortgage company and the homeowners association, I was cleared to move ahead. The home inspection showed no leaking roof and no trouble with the appliances. That said, I coughed up the money and met with a cashier's check for the closing.

The sellers had all their furniture and belongings removed the day before the closing. I arranged to have utilities turned on in my name. They left me a bar of soap in one bathroom and a bottle of water in the refrigerator!

The purpose of this blog is to track my progress with the renovation and document the pitfalls as well as the successful moments.

My bank in Spain will shortly have the technology to produce the details of a payment – not just that I bought at a supermarket, but the copy of the sales slip. Woah!

Maybe not that efficiently, since they had the wrong retailer listed against the payment but the PDF option promised ‘soon’.

When my daughter visited recently she brought UK bank forms for me to change my address, and took them back with her. A week later when I tried to transfer funds to my euro card, which is operated through a completely different bank, it was declined because my address had changed. No problem, I could create a new account with correct address linked to the same card, but

When I logged in to do my UK tax return HMRC said “right, you earned this much from this employer, and this was the PAYE deducted. Then this much through the temp agency, and this was the PAYE deducted."

Not complaining, since the P60 from the temp agency has never caught up with me and I was intending to show it as untaxed income rather than faff around (not a big amount) but has anyone else noticed Big Brother is keeping much closer tabs than before?

So far it has been helpful but . . .

I've been spending a lot of my free time -of which I have quite a large
amount at the moment- messing about with a 3D modelling computer
programme. It also does animation. It isn't simple to use, in fact, it is
quite complicated and would probably require a college course to gain
proficiency. After much persistence I am starting to get to grips with the
basics.

This is a sample of my achievements so far. Providing I can manage to
upload it to the blog.

But... how does an eagle rejuvenate? .
At the age of forty, its beak arches, its claws harden, and its weight becomes heavy under the influence of the thick feathers that cover its chest and weigh it down. Here is the difficult choice. …
Or rejuvenate himself!! .
Whoever chooses life, chooses one of the high mountain peaks to settle in and isolate from everyone.
And he began to peck and hit the rock with his old beak until this beak was completely broken... Then he began to dig up the rock with his claws until all of them were broken from their roots with all the suffering and pain in them.
Let the new beak and claws begin to emerge and grow to have a new beak and claws like a young young eagle...
This process takes him about 150 continuous days, which he bears with great patience.
After the growth of its beak and claws, it begins to pluck its feathers by itself with its beak and claws, and to scrape what it does not reach by rubbing against the rocks until it becomes completely naked of any feathers.
For new feathers to grow for him... This process takes about 350 days.
After this suffering, the eagle becomes a young man and returns to his first youth, full of strength and vitality, to live as a young man for at least another 30 years...
And now..did you see with me how arduous and painful the process of rejuvenation is!!! It needs a will to change and a determination to renew!!!
And you need patience and suffering for the goal of renewal!!!!
And the question now...
Do you have the nature, will and determination of Eagles? Do you love life and want renewal?
Will you renew your youth like an eagle, or do you live as an old woman waiting for the end? ..
You have the answer...and you are the one to choose.

Obese:
Why do people become addicted to food and sweets?
Anything I want I do, who cares what others think...
Special bed, wheelchair, chair...
Can't fit in a normal car..
Why misuse your body, to that extend?
It must be painfull…

Anorexia:
Is a sickness, but on the direct opposite,
here you do anything in your power not to eat,
or with bulimia eat like a glutton, and just puke it out right after...
Mostly all people had gone through some form of this disease...
Most people want to be thin...
Ultra thin models to look up to...

The world is sick, many times...

Have you noticed when you are out and about, that it is difficult to spot many men with a defined hairline? The fashion of wearing caps that hang over that area have become popular. Many men now grow masses of facial hair or use the tactic of brushing side hair up and across their polished dome.

Big cowboy hats are also common especially with pole , line , and Morris dancers

How is it that our brains can replicate such "perfect" details in our dreams, while our awake brains can only recall certain details?

It is not like when we go to sleep we plug ourselves into a cable tv connection....I am simply amazed at how powerful our brains are and we often overlook it.

Such a mystery.

Super tired but really feel thankful for things that life offered me in the past few days



She, the hospitable and generous Thai woman gave me 2 out of the only 3 first cucumbers on their trees. I feel a bit guity taking them but i guess i will just keep them as a nice memory She even asked me to stay and marry her doctor son



We had a great time with ethnic minority people and that made me refused a job opportunity at McKinsey today and feel more hesitant to apply for the embassy job though i was told to nearly a week ago. Feeling like i m meant to be on the walks to these people, not meant for political or business world...



Something quite irritating happened at the restaurant but all my good mood got back when I got home and surprised with this beauty. Love them so so much



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